Download or read book Thirty Years After Sharkovskii's Theorem: New Perspectives - Proceedings Of The Conference written by Luis Alseda and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1996-01-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings contain a collection of papers on Combinatorial Dynamics, from the lectures that took place during the international symposium, Thirty Years after Sharkovskiĭ's Theorem: New Perspectives, which was held at La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain, from June 13 to June 18, 1994.Since Professor A N Sharkovskiĭ's landmark paper on the coexistence of periods for interval maps, several lines of research have been developed, opening applications of models to help understand a number of phenomena from a wide variety of fields, such as biology, economics, physics, etc. The meeting served to summarize the progress made since Professor Sharkovskiĭ's discovery, and to explore new directions.